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Friday Open Line

Arkansas Times ·

2025/06/20

Welcome.

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Benton shuts down splash pad following reports of...

Arkansas Times ·

2025/06/20

Benton’s Parks and Recreation Department shut down a splash pad this week following reports of children suffering from burns and rashes after playing in the water at Tyndall Park located at 913 E. Sevier St.

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Legislature signs off on rule that bans hog farms...

Arkansas Times ·

2025/06/20

After years of deliberations, a blanket moratorium on industrial hog farming in the Buffalo River watershed has been implemented by state legislators and the Department of Agriculture.

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Even dancing the ‘Macarena’ can be a form of protest

Arkansas Times ·

2025/06/20

Perhaps even more impressive than the turnout in Little Rock, and a similarly large crowd in Fayetteville, were the people attending events in more than a dozen locations across Arkansas.

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Southwest LR’s Tacos El Carbon is legit

Arkansas Times ·

2025/06/20

Our yearning to try the new restaurant intensified last month when Eat Arkansas correspondent Sammy Williams sent an unprompted text message that read simply: “Tacos El Carbon is stupid good.”

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Aw, Snap: Calm before the storm

Arkansas Times ·

2025/06/20

Just a handful of weeks before a March wildfire torched the roof on the St. Joseph Center in North Little Rock, photographer Brian Chilson captured this foreboding scene on the farmstead grounds, somehow predicting the damage to come.

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Arkansas has put $277 million toward school vouchers...

Arkansas Times ·

2025/06/19

Republicans will soon have two options: Turn away voucher applicants or pump even more money into the program even as state revenue is declining.

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Thursday Open Line

Arkansas Times ·

2025/06/19

Welcome.

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Little Rock Central wrestling coach wins Arkansas...

Arkansas Times ·

2025/06/19

Aaron Butler is building a wrestling powerhouse at Central High School, and he has a ton of hardware to prove it.

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The devil I know: The Observer returns to the South

Arkansas Times ·

2025/06/19

“Would I rather live in a place where Confederate flags wave with pride or a place with a veneer of acceptance to distract from the all-too-alive culture of racism that persists?” The Observer asks.

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Huckabees cash in, Substack edition

Arkansas Times ·

2025/06/18

Former Gov. Mike Huckabee, patriarch and chief flimflammer of Arkansas’s first family, never lets ethics or taste stop him from making a buck.

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Having rejected settlement overtures, AG files...

Arkansas Times ·

2025/06/18

It’s largely a pointless public relations stunt, a way for Griffin to stroke his ego. But it does suggest the fight isn’t going away any time soon.

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Wednesday Open Line

Arkansas Times ·

2025/06/18

Howdy.

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Supreme Court delivers brutal loss to transgender...

Arkansas Times ·

2025/06/18

The landmark decision likely means similar laws in other red states, including Arkansas, will also survive constitutional challenges.

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Chevron enters the Arkansas lithium rush while...

Arkansas Times ·

2025/06/18

Another huge oil company makes the leap into the Arkansas lithium rush.

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Person to run for state House seat

Arkansas Times ·

2025/06/18

Steven Person’s campaign announcement touts his military service, civic engagement and community ties.

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In Elaine, a community group plans an organic farm...

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2025/06/18

More than a hundred years after one of the deadliest racial massacres in American history, rural Black farmers in Elaine move forward with an organic farming project.

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Fire chief Delphone Hubbard chosen as Little Rock’s...

Arkansas Times ·

2025/06/18

The board took a public vote after discussing Mayor Frank Scott Jr’s nomination of Hubbard for more than an hour in an executive session. The vote was 7-1.

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Update: Third Democrat jumps into Little Rock state...

Arkansas Times ·

2025/06/17

Little Rock educator Charity Allen-Smith aims for a Senate seat, right as her husband ends his eight-term career in the House.

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Tuesday Open Line

Arkansas Times ·

2025/06/17

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